Visionary and Technical Strategist
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Software Architect at EMC
- Past
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- Senior Director Product Management at EMC
- Senior Director, Product Management at Authentica, Inc
- CTO at Synopia
- CEO at Pixingo LLC
- CTO at Veridiem Software
- CTO at Centra Software
- Senior Member of Technical Staff at Nexion Inc
- Senior Member Technical Staff at GTE Laboratories
- Education
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- Wittenberg University
- Greenon
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Michael Hackney’s Summary
Software Architect in the CTO's Office of EMC's Content Managment and Archival Business Group. Previously, CTO of Synopia, Founder and CEO of Pixingo LLC, CTO of Veridiem Software, CTO of Centra Software.
Michael Hackney’s Specialties:
strategy - both technical and business, business process design, usability and user interface design, product requirements and product marketing, software architecture, emerging technologies
Michael Hackney’s Experience
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Software Architect
EMC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMC; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Software Architect in the Office of the CTO of EMC's Content Management and Archival Business Group.
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Senior Director Product Management
EMC
(Public Company; EMC; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2006 — January 2007 (11 months)
EMC acquired Authentica in March, 2006. I am currently Product Manager for EMC's Information Rights Management group.
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Senior Director, Product Management
Authentica, Inc
(Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — March 2006 (11 months)
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CTO
Synopia
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — February 2005 (7 months)
Synopia was an early stage pre-funded start-up working on an enterprise class, hosted software application to assist in the "Fuzzy Front End" of new product development. The company was not able to secure startup funding.
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CEO
Pixingo LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2002 — August 2004 (1 year 10 months)
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CTO
Veridiem Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2001 — October 2002 (1 year )
I joined Veridiem as part of a new executive team brought in to restart the company. Responsible for the technical direction, design (with an emphasis on usability) and architecture of Veridiem's Marketing Optimization enterprise application.
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CTO
Centra Software
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ctra; Computer Software industry)
February 1996 — November 2001 (5 years 10 months)
As CTO, I was responsible for Centra's technical direction and a member of the executive team guiding the company to a succesful IPO in early 2001. I conceived, prototyped and architected the first release of Centra's flagship product, Symposium, which included integrated VOIP, multimedia sharing, application sharing and dynamic user feedback. Played a key role in architecting Centra's webinar and meeting products as well as launching the CentraNow web service. Filed for 5 US Patents.
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Senior Member of Technical Staff
Nexion Inc
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1994 — February 1996 (2 years 2 months)
Was a member of the Object Engineering Team whose charter was to promote object-oriented engineering practices across the product development groups. Managed the Isochronous Ethernet Hub (IsoSwitch) project. I was also responsible for the implementation of the device drivers for National Semiconductor's Isoethernet chipset and interfaces to the call switching engine.
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Senior Member Technical Staff
GTE Laboratories
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
July 1987 — January 1994 (6 years 7 months)
Started in Materials Science Lab developing ceramic injection molding technology. Made a career change in 1991 to the Telecommunications Research Lab and managed the development of Operations Automation Systems for GTE Telephone Systems. Received US Patent #5,087,399.
Michael Hackney’s Education
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Postcdoctoral , Inorganic Chemistry , 1985 — 1987
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University of Colorado at Boulder
PhD , Inorganic Chemistry , 1981 — 1985
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Wittenberg University
B.A. , Chemistry, Math , 1977 — 1981
- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma Nu Fraternity
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Greenon
1973 — 1977
Additional Information
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Michael Hackney’s Interests:
Professional: collaboration, content management, the product development process, user-centric software design, graphic design, information design Personal: skiing, fly fishing, mountain biking, guitar, digital photography
Michael Hackney’s Groups:
Active leader in the Boy Scouts of America with my sons, Trout Unlimited, Type 356 Registry
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Information Security Executives
Michael Hackney’s Honors:
Part of the founding team for the Boston Children's Hospital KidBits project. The project won a Presidential Point of Light award in 1991 and I and the other founders were invited too the Whitehouse for the awards ceremony. It was a very humbling experience being in the presence of great people who have volunteered countless years of their lives to help those less fortunate.
For more information about KidBits and the award, please browse to:
http://www.pointsoflight.org/awards/prescommunityvol/winner_details.cfm?ID=242
Michael Hackney’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
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- business deals
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